Open Word document from command line with additional data source parameter

windows command-line ms-word datasource rundll32
erdal.karaca picture erdal.karaca · Oct 11, 2012 · Viewed 17.9k times · Source

It is possible to open a word document from the command line using this:

rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler path.to.word.document.doc

Unfortunately, that document needs an external data source, so the path of that data source has to be set manually once it is opened.

Is there a more convenient way to provide an additional parameter to point to the data source?

Answer

AbhinavRanjan picture AbhinavRanjan · Feb 19, 2013

You can open a word document using

winword.exe <filepath>

To use winword in command prompt you need to set your path variable like this

set path=%path%;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

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